Most of the rural warriors who can become archers are selected and have great length and strength, and a considerable number of them are hunters or have been exposed to bows and arrows before. Although the rural warriors are far behind the elite soldiers, the proficiency of the archers is far higher than that of the elite soldiers.

Super ordinary people.

Watching four archers who were far superior to ordinary people draw their bows and shoot arrows, Li Mengxi silently calculated that from taking the arrow to completing the shooting, including searching for the enemy, it would take about seven seconds to shoot an arrow.

He can shoot less than ten arrows in one minute.

The seven seconds required for archery are roughly as follows: it takes about one second to pick up the arrow, more than one second to set the arrow, and more than one second to draw the bow. It takes the longest time to reach out and search for the enemy.

With a bang, the siege ladder approached the city again. Li Mengxi didn't even look at it, but frowned in thought.

Li Mengxi felt that he had found the first point that could be studied in depth about city defense tactics.

I made an agreement with Liu Xuande that there is no need to practice fighting on the city walls. The siege team only needs to practice the three parts of charging the city, shooting against each other, and shield formation.

The archers had to cooperate with the people in the city for training, but Li Mengxi took several archers away at once to a section of the city wall far away from the enemy tower.

Li Mengxi was short, so he had to climb up the battlements to see clearly what was outside the city.

"Have you seen the grass under the city?" Li Mengxi pointed to a weed growing under the city and beside the moat to protect the city, and showed it to the archers.

"You four, shoot the grass." Li Mengxi ordered.

There were some incomprehensible orders. Just do whatever the superior said. The archers would not question Li Mengxi's orders.

After receiving Li Mengxi's military order, the four archers scattered and prepared to find a battlement to shoot arrows.

"Wait a minute." Li Mengxi stopped the four people.

"Two people stand on one battlement. On these two battlements, the four of you stand here." Li Mengxi pointed to two battlements next to each other and said.

If there are many people guarding the city, there will naturally be no empty space.

Li Mengxi asked four archers to huddle together and shoot arrows at the target below the city.

At the beginning, nothing happened.

But soon, as soon as one Xiang Yong had nocked an arrow, he was about to lean out and shoot an arrow down the gap in the battlements. Just in time, another Xiang Yong had also nocked an arrow. Both of them wanted to let each other go, but then they stopped in embarrassment.

In the end, it took a second or two, or even longer, for the two heroes to coordinate the shooting sequence with their eyes.

Li Mengxi frowned when he saw it, and he discovered the first problem.

If they don't cooperate well, they want to squeeze through the battlements when shooting at the same time, and then neither of them can shoot.

This is not a big problem. I am afraid that if I panic during the war, my hand will loosen and the arrow will fly.

Everyone is delayed for a second or two. If everyone makes a mistake, an average of one or two arrows will be delayed for a second or two, and then the arrow rain defending the city will be much thinner. These seemingly inconspicuous small mistakes are accumulated, and the small

Mistakes can also cause big crashes.

"stop!"

When the archers finished shooting half of the arrows, Li Mengxi called to stop.

"This way. When shooting arrows, alternate left and right, and shoot in turns. If one person doesn't finish shooting, the other person will definitely not be allowed to shoot. Do you understand?"

The four archers all nodded, indicating that they understood.

"Start!" Li Mengxi ordered again.

Because of the order, it was really calm and not chaotic, because the mistake of two people setting up arrows at the same time and not knowing how to shoot no longer existed.

Alternate shooting can reduce confusion. At the same time, two archers do not shoot at the same time. One has to wait for the other to finish shooting before the other shoots. Will this reduce the shooting frequency? The answer is, not only will it not reduce the overall output frequency of the two archers

, on the contrary, the efficiency will be higher.

Alternate shooting just means the shots are staggered.

The whole process of drawing the bow and firing the arrow takes six or seven seconds, which is enough time for the two people to completely stagger their movements.

After one person finished shooting, the other person just finished nocking the arrow. When the substitute got up, he also drew the bow. Then after shooting, the other person withdrew and the other person nocked the arrow again.

The archers were becoming more and more skilled in shooting arrows alternately. As Li Mengxi watched, he put one hand behind his back and involuntarily pinched his knuckles with his fingers to silently count the time.

Li Mengxi didn't know when he got this habit automatically, and his skills of pinching and calculating seemed to have awakened without him knowing it.

The archers' movements became more and more coherent, and then suddenly stopped.

No more arrows.

right!

When defending a city, replenishing arrows is also a problem.

Li Mengxi also took the quiver and looked at it. One quiver can only hold thirty arrows.

Following the arrow, Li Mengxi thought of another question.

If you are attacking a city, once the siege begins, it may last for several days and nights.

Thirty arrows can be shot quickly.

What happens after the arrow is shot?

Drawing a bow takes a lot of energy. After shooting thirty arrows from a full bow, his arms will be exhausted. Even if he can replenish the arrows, the archer will not be able to continue shooting.

The crossbow saves stamina, but you still need to replenish the crossbow arrows after shooting.

After the crossbowman has shot his arrows, he should not go directly to the city to replenish his arrows. Going directly to the city will increase the flow of people on the city wall, which is not conducive to the reinforcement of the city wall and consumes more physical strength.

If a crossbowman needs to replenish his crossbow arrows ten times a day, and if he goes up and down the city ten times, the accumulated stamina consumed will be a lot.

Therefore, there should be dedicated personnel to supply crossbows.

One or two people carry hundreds of crossbow arrows to the city to supply them, enough for ten people.

The physical exertion of one person, even a civilian with no fighting ability, can replace the physical exertion of ten soldiers going up and down the city, which is a great deal.

Li Mengxi was very good at association. His breadth of knowledge and broadness of thinking were unparalleled by the ancients.

From the bow, I think of archery replenishment, and then to crossbows, and then to the supply of the entire city wall, and how personnel can be mobilized unhindered up and down the city, and even rotate out weak defenders while fighting.

soldiers.

With such an association, a lot of questions suddenly arise.

Li Mengxi shook his head and decided not to care about anything else for the time being. He should first understand the crossbowman.

Li Mengxi sent one of the four archers to negotiate with Liu Bei, saying that he needed some crossbows and asked him to get them.

The remaining three archers didn't have many arrows left in their quivers, only two or three.

Li Mengxi stuck his head out of the battlements, turned his head to look to the left, and saw the siege ladder erected in front of the enemy tower.

The eye level of adults is different from that of children.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Li Mengxi was blocked by the battlements and could not see the siege ladder outside, but the village warriors could not only see it, but also shoot with arrows.

He led three archers and walked a little further to the wall on the side, which was about ten steps.

"Can you shoot to the siege team from here?" Li Mengxi asked.

The archers each raised their heads and looked sideways, "I can shoot." The distance was only thirty steps, so I could shoot.

"Well, shoot all the remaining arrows from the side to scare them." Li Mengxi chuckled.

Liu Bei was in front of the city gate at this time. Like an ordinary sword and shield soldier, he held the shield in his hand and raised it diagonally upward to guard against the arrows flying from the city.

Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, Liu Bei saw a dark figure flying from the side. Liu Bei was startled and quickly raised his shield to block it.

With a pop, the arrow shaft without an arrow hit the ground two steps away from Liu Bei's feet. The arrow shaft bounced on the ground and then rolled to the ground.

When there was no danger, Liu Bei raised his head and looked at the wall on the left side of the enemy tower. He saw Li Mengxi waving in the distance.

Li Mengxi used a living case to tell Liu Bei that the siege team would not only be hit by crossbow arrows from the front, but also stray arrows from the side.

Therefore, the shield formation must be tightly defended and must guard the sides.

Because there were few people, Liu Bei concentrated his people on the enemy towers and the two small sections of the city wall on the left and right to train his soldiers. However, Liu Bei ignored that when the defenders had enough troops, the long wall line and the attackers would be hit by crossbow arrows from the oblique sides.

blow.

For crossbow weapons, when analyzed by a single soldier, the area attacked by the crossbow is a sector, and the radius of the sector is the effective killing radius of the crossbow.

Therefore, the more siege soldiers are swept by the enemy, the theoretical maximum number of crossbows they will receive.

Therefore, when attacking a city, the siege team will have the same probability of being attacked if they attack the middle position of the city wall.

If the siege point continues to expand to both sides of the city wall, when it approaches a certain interval at both ends of the city wall, the siege team will lose the crossbow arrows coming from one side.

In a square city, if the attacking team is close to the left end of the city wall, there will be no threat from crossbow arrows on a large section of the wall on the right.

Similarly, if the siege team attacks close to the right end, it is equivalent to not having the threat of a long rain of arrows on the left.

Therefore, a siege team attacking the corner of a city wall will definitely face one-third less arrow rain than a siege team attacking the middle part of the city wall.
Chapter completed!